feet in a bath of herbs, and so to bed.  This month ends with very fair weather for a great while together.  My health pretty well, but only wind do now and then torment me . . . extremely.  The Queen is brought a few days since to Hampton Court; and all people say of her to be a very fine and handsome lady, and very discreet; and that the King is pleased enough with her which, I fear, will put Madam Castlemaine’s nose out of joynt.  The Court is wholly now at Hampton.  A peace with Argier is lately made; which is also good news.  My father is lately come to town to see us, and though it has cost and will cost more money, yet I am pleased with the alteraeons on my house at Brampton.  My Lord Sandwich is lately come with the Queen from sea, very well and in good repute.  Upon an audit of my estate I find myself worth about L530 ‘de claro’.  The Act for Uniformity is lately printed,

["An Act for the Uniformity of public prayers and administration of sacraments and other rites and ceremonies, and for establishing the form of making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons in the Church of England.”]

which, it is thought, will make mad work among the Presbyterian ministers.  People of all sides are very much discontented; some thinking themselves used, contrary to promise, too hardly; and the other, that they are not rewarded so much as they expected by the King.  God keep us all.  I have by a late oath obliged myself from wine and plays, of which I find good effect.

                          Diaryof Samuel Pepys. 
                                   June
                                   1662

June 1st (Lord’s day).  At church in the morning.  A stranger made a very good sermon.  Dined at home, and Mr. Spong came to see me; so he and I sat down a little to sing some French psalms, and then comes Mr. Shepley and Mr. Moore, and so we to dinner, and after dinner to church again, where a Presbyter made a sad and long sermon, which vexed me, and so home, and so to walk on the leads, and supper and to prayers and bed.

2nd.  Up early about business and then to the Wardrobe with Mr. Moore, and spoke to my Lord about the exchange of the crusados

     [Cruzado, a Portuguese coin of 480 reis.  It is named from a cross
     which it bears on one side, the arms of Portugal being on the other. 
     It varied in value at different periods from 2s. 3d. to 4s.]

into sterling money, and other matters.  So to my father at Tom’s, and after some talk with him away home, and by and by comes my father to dinner with me, and then by coach, setting him down in Cheapside, my wife and I to Mrs. Clarke’s at Westminster, the first visit that ever we both made her yet.  We found her in a dishabille, intending to go to Hampton Court to-morrow.  We had much pretty discourse, and a very fine lady she is.  Thence by water to Salisbury Court, and Mrs. Turner not being at home, home by coach, and so after walking on the leads and supper to bed.  This day my wife put on her slasht wastecoate, which is very pretty.